I am fairly new to Sabayon (but not to Linux) and after installing it on mymain computer recently now have a problem with the sound configuration here.My Hardware is an on-board VIA VT1828S that uses snd_hda_intel which isloaded.

First I have to say sound does work. Running KDE I can watch video, listen tomp3s and so on.In Kmixer I only have one channel "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" and changingits setting mostly does nothing, only when going below something like 20% itlightly reduces volume, so basically I have no main volume control for allapplications, not to talk about settings for surround sound systems."Internal Audio Analog Stereo" is the only output device available.

The only change I made to config files is adding "alias snd-card-0snd-hda-intel" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf.

When running alsamixer I see one Master channel and Card and Chip showPulseAudio.I can change the card from Default to HDA Intel and get the usual/expectedcontrols that allow setting several channels.After closing and running alsamixer again it shows the PulseAudio stuff again.

With some playing around of starting and stopping alsasound and xdm I managedto get the HDA-Intel controls in KDE but I can not say what exactly made themappear.

Can anyone of you point me in the right direction to get the full controls for my soundcard?

Thanks in advance for your help

Christian

Last edited by cherzyk on Sat Aug 06, 2011 17:29, edited 1 time in total.

Is an easy fix, if you do not need pulseaudio, I have used pulseaudio for awhile with no problems, last few months has been buggy. My cure is to prevent pa from starting. And works fine. If another update comes along and pa is included... It will regenerate the file and you may need to do the work again.open a terminal and su too root

This will simply rename the file that pa looks for when you boot, if it cant find it will not start.You can always move it back later if wanted, or a future update may bring it back, just takes a min either way.

cherzyk wrote:and changing its setting mostly does nothing, only when going below something like 20% itlightly reduces volume, so basically I have no main volume control for allapplications, not to talk about settings for surround sound systems."Internal Audio Analog Stereo" is the only output device available.

Regarding PulseAudio sound level, you probably just need to adjust it using PulseAudio Volume Control (e.g. enter the command pavucontrol from the command line, or press Alt-F2 and enter the command pavucontrol, or find it in the DE GUI menu). If you need to change the volume ratio between ALSA and PulseAudio, simply adjust the former using ALSAMixer, and the latter using KMix or PulseAudio Volume Control.

cherzyk wrote:When running alsamixer I see one Master channel and Card and Chip showPulseAudio.

It's meant to be that way. You have to press F6 to select your card. Alternatively, start ALSAMixer using options. For example, if your card is Card 0, you could enter the command: